Another great comet image from Stephen Ellcock. This is The Great Comet of 1843, famous for its extraordinarily long tail–the longest that had ever been observed on a comet. Painting by astronomer Charles Piazzi Smith.
Month: May 2013
Heavenly Images
Stephen Ellcock has pulled together some terrific “Pre-Space Age Images of the Heavens” on his Facebook page “The Celestial Archives.”
Here’s one I like: “Donati’s Comet, October 8, 1858 at 8 o’clock at night. From the walls of the Horse Gate.” (Or something like that; my Czecho-Slovak’s pretty sketchy.) Thanks, Mr. Ellcock.
